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SUNSHINE, FRUITS Ind FLOWERS.
An Exhaustive Description OF Its
Unlimited Resources.
ITS LOCATION, SIZE, TOPOGRAPHY
AND NATURAL ADVANTAGES.
Educational Systems-Cheap Lands
Superior rAdvantages-The Rich and
Beautiful Town OF Woodland.

Yolo, one of the most fertile and pros
porous counties in the State, is situated in
the central portion of the great valley Of
the Sacramento. 1t contains l,017 square
miles, or Col, 900 acres of land. Its west
ern border extends into the Coast Range
mountains, while the Sacramento river,
for distance Of over sixty miles, divides
1t from the counties lying to the eastward,
afiording most excellent facilities for the
transportation of her grain and other pro-
ducts. The county is bounded on the
north by Colusa, east by Sutter and Sacra-
mento south by Solano, and west by So
lano, Napa and Lake. The area of this
county is almost the same as that of the
State of Rhode Island, and, with the ex-
ception of a very small acreage mre-
claimed along the Sacramento river, its
entire area is susceptible of the highest
stage of cultivation
The first settlement in Yolo county was
made by William Gordon, who came up
from Los Angeles and located on Cache
creek. He built house for himself and
family, and was the
PIONEER SETTLER OF THAT SECTION.
Settlers came in slowly, and when the first
election was held, November 1S.
1850, the total vote cast in the section now
known as Yolo county was 173. Property
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growing, will, in from three to five years,
be i'll Independent circumstances.
Twenty acres in wine. table or raisin
grapes, will, in three years, support and
educate family. Forty acres for fruit
growing are all man wants 4 yield Of
five tons per acre, is not high average in
this region, and the price last season was
from $50 to $50 per ton There is one re-
suit of the climate of the Sacramento val
ley and the foothills worthy of mention
All kinds of fruit mature here earlier than
in other parts of the State Small fruits
apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums
aprieots and grapes get to market from
two to three weeks earlier than from other
sections, and bring a correspondingly
higher price. These
FRUITS ARE THE FIRST OF TIE SEASON
That are seen III the markets of Nevada,
Utah, Idaho, Montana, Colorado and all
! the Eastern States This is an important
fact in connection with the selection of a
location for fruitgrowing. Oranges ripen
three or four weeks earlier in the Sacra-
mento valley than they do in the much
advertised and far-famed region around
Los Angeles The past season a gentle
man iiOii ehc hoi tncIn part VI the otdle
visited the Sierra Madre settlement in Los
Angeles county, near the old San Gabriel
Mission, which has been claimed to be the
finest fruit spot in the southern counties
There he saw people eating Sacramento
| valley oranges, while all that product was
still green on the trees there. The grow
ing of the raisin grape is attracting great
attention. The most successful raisiu vine
wards are in Northern California These
raisins for quality and size are equal to
those of Spain and Italy, which have been
| famed for the raisin grape for a thousand
years. Yield, quality, price and market
point to this branch of industry as one of
the most profitable branches of agriculture.
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hillsides and the Weld in quantity and
qiiailtr is equ:,l to that Of any other part
Of the world. .lil the other temperate
climate fruits do well. either on the black,
soil bordering on the rivers, on the yellow
soils of the plains or on the red soils Of
the foo,hiIls.
Grapes grow in profession in every To-
cality in this county. Flourishi1g vine
yards are to DC found bordering on the
largest streams. or the i.cnrl, lands and all
through the foothills. The hardy CatawL:l
and Concord fcarsh sid. i,y side with the
delicate German and French table and
wine grapes. The raisin grape also find,
is favorite conditions here. The raiscrs
al over this region have supported FAM
iiics aud made small fortunes from this in
dnstry. Lands that for wheat-growine
and grazing are worth from 2l0 to $50 per
acre, planted TO orchards and vines make a
sure return upon 4 valuation OF from $500
10 $500 per acre. The people of this sec
tion are only just awakening to the profits
Of this Industry. Large additions are be-
ing made to the area devoted to orchards
and vineyards. 1t is safe 10 say that
HE WHO COMES Now AND srYs LAND
At present p.ises, AID deyo:es i to fruit
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The price of grapes WAS much higher than
III 1883, and the
1CK or oI.o WINE, on uAED

STOCK oF OLD WINES oN uANU
Is very i4ht Consumption and the ex-
port trade have both in reascd largely, the
latter showing g@in Of 100000 gallons
in one year, the total expert Of 1888 being
5,230,0O0 gallons. Most of this wine went
to Eastern markets, and it is satisfactory -
note an increasing demand there for Clli-
fornia wines and their growing popularity.
The total area planted t. vines is about.
100000 acres, Of which onc.half are now
in bearing. The total number Of vines
planted IS estimated at l00,000,0g1, and
the capital invested in the business at
S15 ,G00,00o IN The kindred industry, that
Of raiSin-makiur, there has hecn still fur
ther advance This years pacl, Amounted
to 100000 1cSe, Of twenty pounds each, or
a total of 100000 pounds If fruit In
1885 the PACK WAS $4,000 boxes, or 9,000-
600 roaads. The quality Of the pack is
improving each succeeding year, and this
season, irgit has realized as high prices IL
the Eastern ma ket Is similar grades Of
Malaga rais;ns. That the denand aud
consumption is extending in the East viii
lie seen from the fact that The exports over
land during October and NoYcmler Of the
present season exceeded 10y l,0G90 200
pounds the quantity sent East during eight
months after the 1885 pack was ready for
shipment'
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large majority, attracted by the destinations
which accompany the idea Of
A sEMI-TRoPICAL CLIMATE,
And linger around orange groves and
vineyards, have sought and found their
future homes in the southern counties.
Wonderful stories told of the sanitary
properties of the climate of Southern
California have induced many TO settle
permanently in the mild, dry and genial
climate of Los Angeles San Bernardino or
San Diego. While we rejoice in the pros
perity of the SOUTH the central and north
ern portions of California possess advantages
and inducements to the industrious immi-
grant in no wise inferior to those which
the southern sections present. In the
minds of many the term northern, as ap-
piled to California, is associated with the
idea of frost and snow, of bleak winds and
iee-fettered streams, in short with all that
goes to make up the general diScomforts of
New England winter climate. Nothing
can be farther from the truth. Except in
the extreme northern counties, located in
the high Sierra,
Snow is SELDOM SEEN,
And lies upon the ground but few days
at time, when it melts and disappears.
moistening the earth and rendering irri-
CATION unnecessary. The annual rainfall
in the northern and central counties is
much greater than in the southern portions
of the State, and the atmosphere is more
humid especially is this the case in the
coast counties, where the ocean fogs de-
posit their vivifying moisture and keep the
face of nature ever fresh and green The
northern and central counties are fast be-
coming the great wine and fruit centers of
the State; their climate is, in every re-
spect, as mild and equable as that of the
southern counties.
THE southern counties possess their pc
culiar advantages, but they are equaled by
corresponding and equivalent advantages
on the part OF the northern and central
sections. At present the south is the great
center Of the citrus fruit product, but it
has been clearly and indisputably shown
that, even as far north as Shasta, oranges,
lemons and lines
JAPANESE PERsIMMoNs, POMEGRANATEs.
And other semi-tropical fruits can be
grown of equally good quality and in the
greatest abundance In Butte, Placer,
Tehama, FL Dorado Nevada and Santa
Clara counties large areas of land have re-
Gently been planted with orange and lemon
trees, and il is only question of time
when these counties will compete with
Los Angeles and San Bernardino for the
citrus-fruit trade of the Pacific coast. The
late citrus fairs AT Sacramento and San
Jose have opened the eyes of the people :;
they have seen their omitted opportunities
and they viii no longer be neglected For
the production Of apples, pears, peaches,
nectarines, apricots, prunes and grapes, no
country On earth can equal the great Sac
ramento and San joaquin valleys and the
foothills of the Sierra. The era of fruit
production in this section has only Just
begun:
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RAISINS.
Those Made in Yolo surpass the Imported
Article.

Those Made in Yolo Surpass the Imported
Article.
Arpad IIarazthy, one of the leading
vineyardists in this State, whose wines
have not only Il national reputation, but
are known and appreciated throughout the
world, in an interview with a representa-
tive of the Daily Report stated that he
was well acquainted with the soil of Yolo
county. 1t was remarkably fine fruit
growing soil, and, in his opinion, the
ground nearest the gravel ridges-that is
to say, the lightest soil-was best adapted
to the growth of wine grapes, and the
heaviest-that farthest from the ridges
for the production of raisin grapes. He
believed that wine grapes of the finest
quality might be grown on the light soil,
| and that the entire area spoken Of was one
Of the finest fruit-grOwing districts in the
State. Mr.. Harazthy considered that the
raisin manufacture would become
\ LEADING INDUSTRY IN CALIFORNIA.
Although it would never approach the
wine interest in importance. Should this
gentleman's Judgment of Yolo county land
be correct, as the heavier land exceeds the
lighter in quality, it will be well TO see
what promises to be the future of raisin-
curing and what prospect those who grow
grapes for raisins have Of finding market
| for their goods The United States is the
greatest misunderstanding country in the
world, importing annually $1,000 boxes
from Europe, the contents of which are
produced almost entirely in the Malaga
and Valencia districts of Spain. The
fruit crop pays duty of y cents pound
which, Of course adds to the price paid by
the consumer. Of the total amount con
SrImed not more than one-twentieth is de-
rived from California. Therefore it will
be seen that there is large field open il
the raisins
CAN GE PRODUCED or EQUAL QUALITY
And at the same price as the foreign arti
Gle. With regard to the quality, it has
already been proved by Mr.. Blowers and
many other viueyardists that The Califor-
MIA raisin equals, il il does not surIas,, tho
imported fruit. The scarcity Of labor has.
Of course, caused the expense of picking,
curing aud packing to be greater here than
in Spain. but the addition Of the duty
about equaiizcs the price Of the product.
Here again the necessity of small holdings
is made apparent, is the work of The entire
family will be called into play, and not
only can the raisins SO picked, cured and
packed be sold cheaper, bat a greater
profit be made than where hired labor Is
employed. Therefore, raisin-producing is
especially adapted to families owning
few acres Of land, and in no part OF the
State can the industry be better carried on
than in the neighborhood which is now
under consideration. The following figures
will give the expense necessary to cult
vate a raisin farm:
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IT'S IMPORTANCE IN THE FUTURE
Can scarcely be predicted The products
of California farms, orchards and vine
yards are beginning to receive world
wide appreciation, and the cry of
over-productiOn has become obsolete.
There is room for hundreds of thousands
of just such immigrants as are now flock
ing into our State, and beautiful, happy
aud prosperous homes await all who have
the courage to seek them, and the nerve
and energy 10 create them. The railroads
are keeping pace with the Influx Of popu-
lation, and are sending out their feeders
in every direction as the necessities for
transportation arise; and along their
lines spring up hamlets, villages, towns
aud cities, forming new trade ceuters and
new bases of production"
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TOPOGRAPHY.
Rolling Hills. Beautiful Plains, Fine
Timber, Fertile ynI,eya


Timber. Fertile Valleys.
The surface of Yolo county is, generally
speaking, level. Beginning at the Sacra-
mento river on the east, the tuie or over
flowed lands occupy an extensive belt
four or five miles in width aud Twenty-Five
miles III length, This land is not culti-
waited because ot the annual ovcraows, but
it is none the less valuable as land for the
grazing of cattle, horses and sheep. Large
droyes of hogs are raised upon portions of
this soft, yielding soil After leaving this
section, which is slightly elevated above
tide-water, We come to vast plain, with
considerable fall, extending to the foot
hills, Il distance on an average of - miles.
Cache creek, which is the outlet
OF Clear Lake, courses through the
center Of the county. On either
side of this stream is a belt of
oak timber of wonderful growth, which
extends 4 distance Of six miles both north
and south of the creek. The western por-
tion Of the country is composed of 4
vast hilly territory, and the fertile Capay
valley. The mountains are not rugged, but
ot that undulsting character commonly
classed as grazing land. Yolo county is
not noted for its grandeur of scenery, for
nature has done but little for her III that
direction. She has no high mountains
capped with eternal snow; no waterfalls
like Yosemite; no big trees like those of
Mariposa. He who seeks only for gigantic
freaks of nature will be disappointed in
1olo. but the man who enjoys nature in
birds and flowers, in trees and running
brooks, who can extract mental pleasure
ia the midst of growing grain and blooming
vine and fruit trees will have at his com
mand 4 scenery that will rival the finest
aspect obtainable from the loftiest peak of
the Alps. Along the Sacramento river,
Cache creek, Putah creek and their tribu-
taries throughout the Capay valley and
among the foothills full OF deer and other
wild game, the student ef nature will fad
mnch 10 excite his wonder and admira-
ton.
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RESIDENCE F. s. FREEMAN, WOODLAND.

come to full bearing When it is said that
this vineyard has averaged this for the
last six years, the importance of the sto;e-
ment will be understood. Mr.. Blowers
estimates that the interest on capital in
vested, and expense Of cultivating the
crop will amount to about one-half Of the
above amount, thus showing a net gain Of
$4,000 on II acres, or $l33 SO per acre.
As the Younger vines mature. and when
the season is more favorable, these figures
will be greatly increased. OF the varieties
by which this desirable result has been
obtained, the Flame Tokay and Seedless
Sultanas have produced
FOURTEEN TONS PER ACRE,
And have been disposed of at an average
of $50 per ton. A great deal of the crop
was sent to Napa for wine-malling pur-
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bottom and plain lands. each of which has
a peculiar adaptation. The soil is deep,
and, rs rule, strong enough to be practi-
cally inexhaustible. The hill lands of
Yolo will eventually become factor of
wealth little thought of at present. As
population becomes more numerous, the
hills will be utilized for homes when it
will be discovered that, like the foot
hills of Sonoma and Napa, they are
| valuable, inasmuch as they will pro-
To-day these lands can be had
at Government prices. In many
places they are covered with
brush and chemese, but the farmer used to
| clearing land finds but little difficulty in
preparing such land for the plow. People
who have travelled through some of the
mountainous regions of France, Italy and
Switzerland and observed the cultivation
of the mountains, can only express surprise
| that the same is not more general in Cali
| fornia. The excuse, however, is in the
fact that in the past there has been suffi-
cient level land to supply the wants of the
people. In 1olO county the hills are of
the same deep soil as we find in the valley.
A part of the hill land is
WELL TIMBERED WITH OAK,
Oftentimes in sufficient quantity TO be
quite source of revenue. The following,
on the soil of upper California, is particu-
| larly adapted to Yolo:
The soil of Northern California is of re-
markable fertility In the valley of the
Sacramento it was formed at the bottom of
an immense lake, which received the
washings and weatherings from the
lofty ranges that surrounded it. For
untold ages the potash from the decompos-
ing granite formations, the magnesia and
lime from the weatherings of the mag
nesia lime strata, and the soda from the
| decomposed vegetation was carried, year
after year, and deposited at the bottom of
this inland sea, where it was stored mp
in ineXhaustible quantities for the uses
of the tillers of the land in later times.
This accounts for the incompatible fertility
of the valley. Judging by the analysis of
the chemist, and the experience of the
than the alluvium in this drained
bed of what was once the great
| Sacramento lake. Along the foot
hills are the cred lands," the soil of
| which is loan composed of sand,
clay, lime, soda, potash, phosphorus, mag
nesia and iron. This red soil has every
element of fertility, and is known to be
almost inexhaustible, bearing annual crops
for great number of years without re-
quiring fertilization The evidence
of the inexhaustible fertility of the
soil Of Northern California is
| furnished in the unexampled wheat
produce of that section in 1884, amounting
to 35000,000 bushels, with yield of more
than 30 per cent. greater than the rest of
the United States, and in the enormous
yield of fruit and every other agricultural
product
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the second year and up to the present
time, has, with irrigation, yielded ten tons
per acre, being cut four times The alfalfa
hay has realized from :sS to $l2 per ton, or
an average of $50 per acre, giving feed for
five cows for ~ least six r,onths in the
year. The gain for that period from the
live stock ought certainly 10 equal $50 per
COW. Thus, valuing the hay at $50 per
acre. the +. ;,rres wonld produce 1925, and
placing the produce OF the live stock at
500, 1t would give an earning per acre of
little over Sle0. BGi OF all the uses that
tins rich soil can be rut to, none equals
grareraising, either for wine, table or
raISIn DIrDOSts
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FRUIT GROWING.
The Most Important ndustry-Inmense
Profits-ExceIlence Of Prnd.Icts.

The Most Important Industry-Inmense
Profits-Excenence Of Products.
The early settlers of Yolo devoted their
attention to grazing, subsequently they
turned their broad acres into wheat fields,
now they are subdiyiding their large tracts
into smaller ones for orchards and vine
yards and the county in consequence will
double and treble in population in Il very
few years The day will come when the
l,000-acre wheat field will be turned into
at least twenty happy homes.
For every kind of iiuit that grows in
the semi-tropic and temperate climates,
Yolo county is, in soil and climate, pre-
eminenlIy favorable. There is not Il
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THE REARING OF LIVE sTocE
Leading Industry IL the EARLY Day
OF Yoio.

Leading Industry L. the Early Days
oF Voio.
The early settler Of Yolo county found
immense profits in the rearing Of live
stock. Here he found 4 vast area covered
with a carpet of suceulent grass, and hc
soon realized the advantage that lay in a
climate and soil that produced. during the
entire year, that which would give sus-
tena4ce to ioc!,s and herds Of domestic an
imals without the necessary expcuse Gf
providing in the summer for their win
ter's consumption. This, combined with
the fabulously high prices that were sonla
times paid for beef and mutton Ia the
mines, caused the early settlers to adopt
extensively the stoclS-raising branch Of the
land-holders industry. 70 become tiller
Of the soil, as then supposed. necessitated
great risk Of loss Of labor by drought. or a
large expense in making irrigation bitches.
fencing against cattle, combined with nu-
merous other disadvantages to be over
come, that, with an uncertain market as "A
reward, made that industry too uufayora-
bic to warrant a trial by many This was
especially the case when brought into
competition with the extensive herds
whose owners could hunt
THE SHADY SIDE OF HorsE
Or tree during the DAY to keep out of the
sun. while their vaquero attended TO the
wealth that increased whether the owner
was sleeping or awake Under these cir
cumstauces il was q natural and ineY ital !e
result that the plains of Yolo should BE-
come one vast pasture for the herds Of the
grazer. First there were here Mexican
cattle and Spanish bronco horses, that were
gradually exterminated as the American
brands could lie procured in their stead
As early as 1852, according to census re-
turns, there were in Ioie county 1,s0S
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WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED
By skill and perseverance, aided by lib
eral outlay Of capital. The figures given
are under rather than over the results
gained, and refer to the season of 1888,
which was far below the average for grape
raising. Mr.. Blowers estate contains TO
acres, the vines on % of which are already
bearing (O>tober, 1883. The vines pro-
duoed that year 400 tons of grapes,
which realized so per ton, or $4,000 for
the years crop. 1t will of course be un-
derstood that the vines vary in age, only
portion having reached maturity and
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IT'S SOIL

Contains Every Element of Fertility,
Deep and Inexhaustibse.
OF the quality OF the soil too much
cannot be said. 1t has been fully demon
strated through long series of years, that
the soil Of Yolo is diversified, thus making
the production of various products posi-
ble. It contains hill land and valley land,
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county N the Sacramento valley or the
foothills of the Coast and S;erri Nevada
ranges .'rt produces all the ffnt> Of those
two zones. 0i the temperate lon fruits,
apples, peas, Tlums, cherries and pea hes
develop rerf':lly aud are un1rirnarhable
in favor. The sam" may l.a s,i,l OF all
the -lusl',r fruits, such a, g"oscl.ergies,
hl,,kbelrie-. raspherrie@. st ;.ai1arrt-+ and
,u'faat.. These all grow 70 he !ar.est
So. AMI era Of the bet qualiiv. The
culJiya'of> Of slnali ti7lits in Yolo county
have ben the most prosperous OF the
tillers u iac soil Apple, do well in the
vallsy,, L, tiic foothills are their iavorite
hon. 'iher,., on
Titr wAaN, SrN.'y sLorEs,
They yiea. abunciantly and are Of the
iin 81 G2lrr.
i'clches grow in the valleys and on the